Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse was directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman. It features a voice cast that includes Jake Johnson, Nicolas Cage, Brian Tyree Henry, Shameik Moore plus many more.
The plot revolves around a high schooler who after getting bitten by a radioactive spider, gets powers from a portal accident and then finds many more Spider-people from other dimensions who have found themselves in the modern world. Then they must team up to stop a villain and get everyone back home. This plot sounded interesting to me because it sounded more ambitious than all the other entries that had come before it and I wanted to see if it could live up to those ambitions.
Voice acting - most of the performances are average, the one who stood out to me the most would have to be Jake Johnson as Peter B Parker. His performance was quite an interesting idea of what an older, more experienced version of a character many know and love could very well look like, and he pulled it off very well.
Screenplay - the film was written by Rodney Rothman and Phil Lord who did an okay job but there are some parts that feel very familiar for this kind of film. The strength of it is giving us the time and space needed to know who everyone is from the heroes to the villains and the side characters.
Animation - the animation was another thing that got my attention about this film. I thought it was just another way for this film to separate itself from its predecessors, given how much it looks like an actual comic and it uses that where it can. But I didn't feel as if the animation really was that special in the end.
Music - the film's score was composed by Daniel Pemberton. I thought it was one of the least memorable scores I've heard in a very long time. Most of the time it sounded like just another superhero movie soundtrack that audiences had heard before, just composed better. And when it's not being that, the soundtrack is made up of low quality hip-hop, possibly to help go along with the film's urban setting.
The big flaw with the film would be its running time. Yes, this is a Spider-Man film and has a lot that it wants to accomplish. It is also very much a kids' film, and when was the last time you saw an animated kids' film that was four minutes off from being two hours? Surely if the editors worked at it a bit more they could have found things to take out, but still keep the important pieces of the story intact.
In conclusion - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse has an interesting plot, decent voice acting, and a middling screenplay, then its faults show. If this is to be the future of this franchise, I would seriously like to hope things will pick up.
Having taken all my pros and cons into account, I'm going to give Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse...
C-
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